Zermatt is a skiing
area that is famous
for its transportation facilities. Since more than 100 years the rack
railway to
Gornergrat
does its job. 18 kilometers an hour is the maximum speed for a car on
its
way to the top so that you will need upto ¾ of an hour to get
from
Zermatt station to the observatory, even if the car goes non stop. If
you
hit one of the trains that rest at every stop on the way it is even
worse.
In former times, if you intended to
make your way further to
Stockhorn
you needed
about twice the time. Anyway, you have to go this way once if you come
to Zermatt, at least the train to Gornergrat. From there you are wise
to
rush down the slope called
Kelle, that leads you strictly down
to
Gant.
From there you take the new cable car to
Hohtälli to take
the
one to
Rote Nase. Those who go for skiing will probably
prefer
the
direct way:
Sunnegga »
Rothorn »
Gant
»
Hohtälli »
Rote Nase »
Stockhorn.
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Gornergrat
terminus. Strait downhill leads to
Winkelmatten
where you had to take a bus to get back to the station in former times.
Today you will probably prefer the Riffelbergbahn. Other slopes
descend
to Gant,
Landtunnel or
Riffelalp. Trains from there to
to
top are slightly slow and boaring, however, if the weather is bad, you
might as well appreciate the opportunity to take a rest here, «home and dry».
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Landtunnel is the
appropriate
station to return to Zermatt if the
slopes valleywards are impassable.
The train makes slopes accessible, that are more or less wide and easy
and of moderate steepness. I've never been uphill to the observatory.
In
former times you had to go this way to get to Stockhorn to avoid a
horrible
combination of ski-lifts,
Gant/Triftji. The new cable car at
Gant,
however,
gets beginners out of trouble nowadays.
Zermatt is a skiing
area that is famous
for its transportation facilities. Since more than 100 years the rack
railway to Gornergrat
does its job. 18 kilometers an hour is the maximum speed for a car on
its
way to the top so that you will need upto ¾ of an hour to get
from
Zermatt station to the observatory, even if the car goes non stop. If
you
hit one of the trains that rest at every stop on the way it is even
worse.
In former times, if you intended to
make your way further to Stockhorn
you needed
about twice the time. Anyway, you have to go this way once if you come
to Zermatt, at least the train to Gornergrat. From there you are wise
to
rush down the slope called Kelle, that leads you strictly down
to Gant.
From there you take the new cable car to Hohtälli to take
the
one to Rote Nase. Those who go for skiing will probably
prefer
the
direct way: Sunnegga » Rothorn » Gant
» Hohtälli » Rote Nase » Stockhorn.
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